Sentences with phrase «hour weeks»

Managers and directors set the tone for the rest of the organization, and having a discussion about healthy work culture will be worthless if the person leading it works 60 - hour weeks, takes no vacations, disrespects others, and thinks the discussion does not apply to them.

While you're working 60 - hour weeks and spending your free time brainstorming how to solve problems in your business, you won't have much time for personal relationships.

Eleven dollars an hour equals about $ 19,000 a year for 34 - hour weeks, which Walmart considers full time.

I'm not even sure where the standard of 40 hour weeks came from and there is nothing special about 40 hours that made us choose that as our measuring rod other than it's a standard that is already in place.

It's the moment many entrepreneurs hit eventually, no matter how much funding they have raised and burned through, no matter how many 100 - hour weeks they and their teams have put in, no matter how brilliant their initial idea.

Nightmares are working 40 - hour weeks and having the government garnish your wages.

While it's true I had gotten extremely tired of working 70 - and 80 - hour weeks, that wasn't what finally pushed me over the edge.

«You just have to put in 80 - to 100 - hour weeks every week,» Elon Musk told Vator.

Yahoo! CEO and former Google executive Marissa Mayer is a famously insane workaholic who says she averages 90 - hour weeks packed with 60 meetings.

Former Wall Street interns told the Wall Street Journal that they would work exhaustive 100 + hour weeks.

For his part, Rosenstein had worked 65 - hour weeks at Google.

Suster calls this simple «passion for what are you doing,» while digital marketer R.G. Riles explains that the best CEO he's worked for «loves the premise of the startup so much that he routinely works 80 - hour weeks without feeling like he has been working much at all.»

Elon Musk says, «You just have to put in 80 - to 100 - hour weeks every week.

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, worked 100 - hour weeks for 24 years.

I finally earned my senior associate's trust after one year of working 80 hour weeks side - by - side.

As vice president and creative director for a Los Angeles tech startup, Felix worked 60 - hour weeks and was available for business calls at all hours.

As the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, he's said to work 100 - hour weeks, and still be unsatisfied with the end result.

Personal feats of superhuman dedication are reported with wide - eyed amazement (here's Marissa Mayer on her 130 - hour weeks at a young Google).

Despite working 60 + hour weeks as a realtor while filming Million Dollar Listing, I still managed to flip a house in the Hollywood Hills for $ 1.2 million in profit on the side.

100 hour weeks for the past 15 months - it's been so crazy!

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, has worked 100 - hour weeks for over 20 years.

That way, hourly employees could still work 40 - hour weeks and complete all necessary tasks.

In the fall, I was logging 80 - plus - hour weeks on a regular basis, traveling most of the time, trying to recover from a bike accident without taking any time off, and sleeping poorly.

Somewhere between Elon Musk working 100 - hour weeks running two companies and laying on a couch with a MacBook on your lap is the sweet spot for entrepreneurial success.

Besides, those focused on improving themselves don't work 100 - hour weeks developing SpaceX rockets and Tesla electric cars like Elon Musk, who's actually chief executive of both companies.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

And for the previous few years, I'd worked 70 - plus - hour weeks.

For example, you could ask that each member of your team look up information on 10 local companies, or spend one hour each week, yourself, finding new information.

Are you spending five - plus hours a week just cleaning your house?

You will never find a CEO of a Fortune 100 company who achieved that goal while working a flexible schedule, putting in no more than 40 hours a week.

She offers office hours each week, where coworkers can pop in to receive some quick legal advice.

According to data from Nielson, American adults aged 35 - 49 spend 33 hours a week watching tv.

I spend at least 40 hours a week staring at a computer, so it's easy for me to feel tired and sluggish during and after work.

In eight weeks and just 3 - 6 hours a week, you'll power through Goethe, Voltaire, Salmon Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk.

There are also plenty of practical tips to help turn that commitment into reality, including clever ways to slip learning into jam - packed days, lists of free resources for online study, and dead simple interventions that are guaranteed to free up hours a week for reading.

You probably work within a defined schedule where you are expected, say, to put in 40 hours a week in exchange for an hourly rate or annual salary.

You're working 80 hours a week.

There never seems enough hours to meet the demands of a small business but a few hours a week invested online can pay big returns.

If you find yourself spending more than 60 hours a week on work, there's only two solutions: shrink your business or delegate your responsibilities.

Most business spend between 1 - 20 hours every week managing their social.

The huge numbers of Dutch people working less than 30 hours a week I met in Amsterdam stirred me to think critically about work culture across the Atlantic.

Spend an extra couple of hours a week with the kids, your mate, your friends or extended family.

But there are only 168 hours a week to begin with.

Yet regardless of how disciplined he was about shutting down his computer and heading home, he continued to spend two hours a day commuting - essentially 10 hours a week which added up to two full months a year.

Research from the Center for Creative Leadership shows that the typical smartphone - enabled executive, manager or professional is connected to work on average of 72 hours a week.

But, when you have men and women working together for over forty plus hours a week it's probably unavoidable.

However, they are likely to view it as an unsustainable solution, especially the very long hours worked by people over 55 years old and multiple job holders working more than 50 hours a week.

To me, an entrepreneur is someone who is willing to work 80 hours a week for themselves before working 40 hours a week for someone else — at half the pay.

Take more control over the 72 hours a week that a smartphone is connected to work.

If a person is working for 72 of them, and sleeping, eating and bathing for 56, that leaves only 40 hours a week for accomplishing everything else.